CFO GUEST: Gillian Sheeran of Pricefx EPISODE: 844: Work, Sleep, and Success Machine Generated Transcript (unedited) CFOTL: You mentioned customer lifetime value, clearly, we talk about it a lot with finance leaders. Since your arrival, how is it calculated? Or has the formula they’ve traditionally used, do you see the world the same way? Is […]
844: The Virtues of Work, Sleep, and Success | Gillian Sheeran, CFO, Pricefx
Gillian Sheeran’s was perhaps 17 years into an illustrious finance career and on her second CFO tour of duty when she finally met the limits of her CFO superpowers. These powers had first guided her into a CFO role at the tender age of 32, where during her tenure she would help to turn a…
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Businesses are in the “Early Innings” when it comes to using EMPLOYEE DATA to manage their people | Adil Syed, CFO, Rippling
CFO GUEST: Adil Syed EPISODE: #843: Making Finance Part of the Business’s Operating Fabric
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843: Making Finance Part of the Business’s Operating Fabric | Adil Syed, CFO, Rippling
If, as the old maxim suggests, "life" is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans, Adil Syed’s other plans most likely did not include Snap Inc—or at least they didn’t when he first headed east to attend business school. Having spent the previous 3 years at Redpoint Ventures helping to raise…
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Optimizing How R&D Dollars are Spent | Ross Muken, CFO, Sophia Genetics
GUEST CFO: Ross Muken of Sophia Genetics EPISODE: #842: Realizing the Potential of Data at Scale
Ep 22: Hires, Fires and a Stable Economy
Brett & Jack discuss how hiring challenges have led certain organizations to be more tolerant of poor employee behaviors – a development that could be putting growing numbers of businesses at risk. Meanwhile, Brett points out that new hires continue to fetch bigger salaries creating an imbalance with existing employee salaries. Also, performance is not […]
How Door Handles Unlock Customer Value at Tesla | Mike Taylor, CFO, Gusto
CFO Guest: Mike Taylor of Gusto Episode: #838 The Unseen Levers of Customer Impact
839: Landing on Both Feet | JJ Pace, CFO, Service Pros Installation Group
When JJ Pace tells us that he was hired in 2002 to build and eventually lead a finance team that would create and implement monthly budgets for a four-location building materials company, the sense of accomplishment that he exudes never falters even when he eventually confides: “In the end, I was the last employee there.”…
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Why Data-Driven CFOs Lead Differently | Mike Taylor, CFO, Gusto
CFO Guest: Mike Taylor of Gusto Episode: #838 The Unseen Levers of Customer Impact
Ep 15: Let the Data do the Talking
Steve and Jack discuss the data tsunami that many organizations are now facing and what steps finance executives can take to replace their historical, backward-looking, “batch mode” thinking with more proactive approaches that will allow finance teams to achieve more predictive outcomes. This episode’s distinguished Planning Aces reveal the leadership mindsets and approaches now driving […]
837: The Hand in the Air | Rob Young, CFO, National Geographic Society
Rob Young remembers that back in 2001, when he joined the incoming class of newbie accountants at KPMG’s Short Hills, New Jersey, office, there was a 5- to 6-year age difference between his KPMG classmates and himself. “It was a situation where a 23-year-old was telling me what to do, but at the same time,…
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